A forest fire in northeastern Japan has scorched the largest area of land in more than 30 years, the central government said ...

With efforts to find a driver who fell in expected to take about three months, there is no concrete timeline in place on when ...

About 1,600 firefighters from 12 prefectures in eastern Japan were battling a forest fire here on the afternoon of Feb. 28.

A labor union of nurses and other staff at medical institutions under Japan's National Hospital Organization staged a ...

Reports of suspicious phone calls and home visits by scammers posing as government officials have climbed since the sinkhole ...

A prominent Japanese hibakusha atomic bomb survivor expressed regret Sunday over the Japanese government's decision not to ...

A project to open a Starbucks cafe in the parking lot of a park in the Saitama Prefecture city of Gyoda has been suspended ...

Tokyo's Skytree soars 634 metres (2,080 feet) upwards, giving spectacular views of the Japanese megalopolis and -- on a clear ...

Police in Koshigaya City, Saitama Prefecture, have arrested a 58-year-old unemployed man on suspicion of breaking into a house and stealing 13,000 yen in cash from the 66-year-old man who lives there.

The meeting of signatories to the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons is set to be held in New York in March.

Located to the northwest of Tokyo, Kawagoe in Saitama prefecture charms visitors with its old-style buildings and one of its main attractions, the Toki no Kane (Time Bell Tower). Kawagoe was ...

Davidson started in the first practice game of the second spring camp against the Saitama Seibu Lions at Nango Stadium in ...